The ruby background stands for the atmosphere of passion and the exaltation of true belief experienced in the Church. Between the icons the filigree triangles in red, white and blue are a response to America’s search for sanctuary and a renewed nationhood in difficult times.

The Church is rooted in the very earth of New England with its flowering trees, stone fences, streams, rivers and mountains, and in its people, represented by the children leaning inward and reaching out of the picture plane.
Above are essential symbols of the Episcopalian religious vision: The Holy Spirit seen as a dove enveloped in a golden radiance, the chalice representing the Holy Communion, and in the center of the window the interlaced triads representing the Holy Trinity.

Flanking the ruby-backed history icons are images of the two great ecosystems shared by most land-based life: the tropical rainforests where vast and varied life forms persist and where most of the oxygen we breathe comes from, and the temperate forests and plains whose trees—and the oceans—balance the elements of the great carbon cycle which physically support life on our finite planet.

At the top of the window and connecting our ecosystems is the sky, blue from the defraction of light in the life-giving atmosphere, supporting the flight of the birds of peace to every corner of the planet and symbolically representing the flights of the mind we call our thoughts and imagination.

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